Chip giant Intel's chairman, Dr Craig Barrett, will kick off the Developer Forum on Tuesday morning, but the following three days will also provide some hard information on solid state drives, on the future architecture called Nehalem, and presumably Larrabee.

Larrabee is Intel's proposed architecture which no doubt is causing Nvidia and AMD-ATI some jitters - at the spring IDF in Shanghai the firm said it would be creating reference designs for discrete boards.

Thursday looks interesting - co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak is being interviewed. We hope the interviewer will ask him about his souped-up, overclocked Segway, and how he makes the strange scooter go that little bit faster.

On Wednesday, Anand Chandrasekher will talk about mobile devices, and he'll be followed by Eric 'Samsung' Kim, who will talk about the digital home. The Viiv idea is not being reviived, we don't believe - earlier this year the Saint of Viiv, Don Macdonald, left Intel for pastures new.

And of course Pat 'Kicking' Gelsinger will be around to go a-keynoting about Visual Computing. Pat loves IDF - heck, he practically invented it.

The Monday before IDF proper starts is reserved for international journalists - we are promised a briefing about bridging the 'real world with the digital world'. Not that there's nothing unreal about the digital world - oh no. Intel is real enough. We used to be treated to the high priest of high tech, Chipzilla's Justin Rattner on day one, but he won't be there. A shame, because Justin is pretty good on future tech.

The Examiner will cover the proceedings in its usual disorderly way, aided and abetted by a couple of stringers. X